Georgetown in Kings County, Prince Edward Island — The Canadian Atlantic

The Honorable Andrew Archibald (A.A.) Macdonald

By Barry Swackhamer, July 10, 2014

1. The Honorable Andrew Archibald (A.A.) Macdonald Marker

Inscription. English:

The Honorable Andrew Archibald (A.A.) Macdonald
was born February 14, 1829 in Three Rivers.
He carried on the family business in Georgetown
until called to serve in the Legislature.
He was in Ottawa, a member of the Senate, when
at age 83 he died, March 21, 1912.
Georgetown’s Father of Confederation
the Honorable A.A. Macdonald was present at
both the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of
1864, from which Canada was founded.

Island, in Kings County. Marker can be reached from Georgetown Road just from Grafton Street, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 60 Georgetown Road, Georgetown, Prince Edward Island C0A 1L0, Canada.

More about this marker. This marker is located in A.A. MacDonald Memorial Garden.

Also see . . . Andrew Archibald Macdonald - Wikipedia. He had been the youngest of the delegates to the Charlottetown Conference on the Union of the Lower Provinces in 1864 and in September of the same year, a delegate to the Quebec Conference which succeeded it and arranged the basis of union for all the British North American Colonies.(Submitted on January 14, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California.)

5. The World's Largest Ship's Wheel located in A.A. MacDonald Memorial Garden

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